poetry The Miramichi Reader

The Essential Elizabeth Brewster as selected by Ingrid Ruthig

September 21, 2021 by Alison Manley

In The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, questioning, conversational poetry melds the private and the collective, exploring the challenges of constructing selfhood and voicing historically silenced female perspectives.

You do not know by Susanna Peremartoni

September 19, 2021 by Susanna Peremartoni

A poem by Susanna Peremartoni. She currently lives in Buapest.

Satched: Poems by Megan Gail Coles

September 15, 2021 by Alison Manley

Megan Gail Coles’s debut poetry collection, Satched, is a vivid portrait of intergenerational trauma, ecological grief, and late-stage capitalism from the perspective of a woman of rural-remote, Northern, working class, mixed ancestry.

Smithereens by Terence Young

September 3, 2021 by Pearl Pirie

Smithereens is Terence Young’s 3rd book of poetry and 6th book.

A Journey to Peace and Connection in Fragile Times: Revisiting Rob Taylor’s The News

August 18, 2021 by Cynthia Sharp

As we stay isolated for the tail end of the pandemic and prepare to tackle climate change with everything in us, Taylor’s body of work, particularly The News, is a source of solace.

Undoing Hours by Selina Boan

August 15, 2021 by Zoe Shaw

Selina Boan’s Undoing Hours foregrounds play with linguistics and poetics to explore liminalities of identity and family in the context of a half-Cree, half-white settler speaker.

Phantompains by Therese Estacion

August 11, 2021 by Emma Rhodes

Phantompains by Therese Estacion carries readers through the narrator’s healing process after surviving a rare bacterial infection, but not without losing both legs below the knees, several fingers, and her uterus.

The John Brady McDonald interview

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 by James M. Fisher

John McDonald is a multidisciplinary writer and artist originally from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. A sixth-generation direct descendant of Chief Mistawasis of the Plains Cree, John’s writings and artwork have been displayed in various publications, private and permanent collections and galleries around the world. John is one of the founding members of the P.A. Lowbrow art movement and is the Vice President of the Indigenous Peoples Artists Collective.

UnSpoken Truth by Angela Bowden

August 5, 2021 by Rachel Fernandes

Unspoken Truth is a bold collection of poetry highlighting the generational pain of Africans living in the diaspora.

Two Poems from Denis Robillard (Part One)

August 5, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Two poems from Ontario poet Denis Robillard.

The Blue Dragonfly – healing through poetry by Veronica Eley

August 1, 2021July 28, 2021 by James M. Fisher

The poems in this collection are ripe to bursting with feeling. Their richness comes from the deep truths that give rise to them. This is a moving work. The Blue Dragonfly is a melody for the spectacle of trauma; a butterfly dancing through a dark landscape; a tragedy undone by poetry.

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